AmphetaDesk is a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news
aggregator - it obediently sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news
that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and
customizable!) webpage. With thousands of channels available, AmphetaDesk
can shave hours off your day - and you'll look smart to all your friends!
Egotism never had it better!

Customization and Expansion

AmphetaDesk's powerful backend allows easy modification to the templates
and internal source code shipped with your download, whether you're on Mac,
Windows, Linux or some unheard of beast from limitless fathoms. Know someone
else who tweaked their AmphetaDesk? You can perform the same tweaks on your
own, gaining flexibility and control, allowing AmphetaDesk to be all you
want and need it to be. Here, we'll talk about various ways of improving
your use of AmphetaDesk, as well as walking you through what others have
done already.

For Developers

AmphetaDesk is developed with Perl and XML. All GUI functions are coded
in Perl using libraries from the specific OS as well (since forcing the user
to download Tk is a bad thing). Runtime versions are built with Perl2EXE
(for Windows), MacPerl (for Mac OS 9 and below) and ProjectBuilder (OS X).
The latest source code is available from SourceForge
CVS and is designed to figure out what OS you're using at the time and
load in the correct libraries (although you'll probably need to download and
install various modules from CPAN). Besides the module dependency, the
source code should work without modification.